Re: Kill sends signal to wrong process group with job control enabled

Robert Elz <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:13:43 +0700

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    Date:        Mon, 2 Mar 2026 17:14:53 -0500
    From:        Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
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  | > the jobid builtin added
  | I wrote one a couple of months ago, using the NetBSD description as a
  | model.

Oh, I wasn't aware, good.

  | It makes it easier to treat all the processes in the subshell as a single
  | unit,

Yes, I can see that.

  | Probably because setsid(2) will fail when the process is already a
  | process group leader.

That's it, yes.

kre